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In Hollywood Servants Insist Upon Sharing In The Fun
In Hollywocxl, servants aren't proud. They're not above mixing sharing the cocktails and cigarettes, and calling you by your
proof that they are better men, or else by showing a really
f;enuine desire for that democratic atmosphere which is ound in practically every celluloid home.
Two Hollywood Rarities
T WILL mention in this connection the young English I girl who waits upon Gloria Swanson as personal maid. This remarkable creature conceived such a violent respect for Gloria through her pictures that she saved enough money over a long period to come from England to Hollywood where sne presented herself at her goddess' door and insisted on being engaged as a maid. She wanted no salary, only her keep and the privilege of calling her miitress "Gloria." This was three years ago. She is still in Gloria's service, waiting on her hand and foot like a slave, receiving nothing in return but the priceless privilege of addressing her by her first name.
Her respect for Gloria has quite evidently been heightened by contact with her. Gloria, you see, although in former days she collected an unequalled reputation for Lofty Chapeaux, is now an example of that almost unique specimen in Hollywood, the genuinely democratic person.
By this I don't mean that she bandies racy persiflage with electricians on the set, and so forth; not, in brief, that she has bad manners for everybody, but that she has good manners for everybody.
The heroine of this little history undoubtedly started out on her pilgrimage with only the awe of the Swanson name to inspire her. But names do not last long when one is brought in intimate contact with their proprietors; and her loyalty can only have been due to the more solid cause of respect for Gloria as a person.
No Heroes At Home
ENERALLY speaking, Hollywood domestics are peculiarly unimpressed by the fame of their employers and the world-circling glamour of their names. Like all domestics anywhere, it does not take them long to get an uncannily exact estimate of the real worth of those Above Stairs ... as people, and not as shadowy figures on a screen. And then, according to the verdict arrived at, fun of a variety of kinds is apt to begin.
Many are the diflPerent sorts of shocks awaiting the innocent visitor to a star's home. The air of good-natured camaraderie, not to say diablerie, which the domestics adopt toward master and guests alike is at first a little alarming.
On one occasion I arrived at a party and was met at the door by the friendliest of butlers. "I do hope you'll like the party," he said. " It sure looks like a swell crowd." This is an accepted form of greeting in the Beverly Hills area, if similar reports from my acquaintances can be believed.
One leading woman arrived home from a week-end trip
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with the guests, first name
Service with a wry smile
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